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Description: Calcite Locality: Daye County, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China (Locality at mindat.org) Size: cabinet, 11.5 x 10.8 x 9.0 cm Calcite on Calcite A large and dramatic, complex specimen built up of iron-stained rhombohedral calcites with a pleasing reddish hue, perched atop an earlier generation of hematite-coated, matte-textured calcite of a different habit entirely (scalenohedral).
Title: Calcite-tch21c
Credit: Image: http://www.irocks.com/db_pics/pics/tch21c.jpg, Description: http://www.mindat.org/photo-270145.html
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